Our Photographer

I’m honored to share space with OnceUponAStory.org, curated by Serena Ma, a platform rooted in a simple but powerful idea: a photograph is never just an image. It carries context, emotion, and lived experience. Like a memoir, it invites the viewer not only to see, but to remember.

My journey with photography began many years ago, quietly and persistently. When I look back through my images, I don’t just see photographs — I relive moments. A single frame can summon a place, a season, a feeling. Taken together over time, these images stitch themselves into a larger narrative, revealing a personal history that words alone could never fully tell.

I’m drawn to photography in all its forms, from intimate family snapshots and weddings to more cinematic approaches to storytelling. What excites me most is the act of bringing memory to life — shaping light and movement into something that resonates beyond the moment it was captured.

For example, the baseball photograph was taken during the Oakland A’s final season at the Coliseum, just before the team packed up for Las Vegas by way of Sacramento. On the surface, it’s a familiar baseball moment. Dig deeper, and it becomes something else entirely.  In that single frame, the pitcher gives up a home run. Oakland loses another professional sports franchise. And a fan base that filled these seats for decades is left behind, abandoned by the team they loved.

You don’t need a scoreboard to understand what’s happening. The pitcher’s expression carries it all: shock, resignation, and the quiet weight of an ending. The photograph doesn’t explain the story. It lets you feel it.

Recently, my work has explored contemporary photographic practices and workshop-driven experiments. I’ve been working with Intentional Camera Movement, Minimalistic Photography, and vertical studies of trees created with a swing-lens film camera. Each approach slows the act of seeing and invites chance, abstraction, and reflection — allowing emotion and memory to surface in unexpected ways.

These images, shared here, are fragments of a longer story still being written — one frame at a time.

Click! Breaks into truth

What I meant to see dissolves

Memory appears